Birgit Schwenzer

6.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
50 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Birgit Schwenzer is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Schwenzer has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 10 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Birgit Schwenzer's work include GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (8 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers) and Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications (6 papers). Birgit Schwenzer is often cited by papers focused on GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (8 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers) and Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications (6 papers). Birgit Schwenzer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Birgit Schwenzer's co-authors include Jun Liu, Jie Xiao, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Zimin Nie, Yuliang Cao, Lifen Xiao, Zhenguo Yang, Wei Wang, Maria L. Sushko and Soowhan Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Schwenzer

49 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Sodium Ion Insertion in Hollow Carbon Nanowires for Battery Applications

2012 1.7k citations Yuliang Cao, Lifen Xiao et al. profile →
A Soft Approach to Encapsulate Sulfur: Polyaniline Nanotubes for Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries with Long Cycle Life

2012 962 citations Lifen Xiao, Yuliang Cao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Materials Science and Materials Chemistry for Large Scale Electrochemical Energy Storage: From Transportation to Electrical Grid

2012 621 citations Jun Liu, Ji‐Guang Zhang et al. profile →
Membrane Development for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

2011 466 citations Birgit Schwenzer, Jianlu Zhang et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Birgit Schwenzer	5.1k	2.3k	1.5k	1.4k	607	50	6.2k
Betar M. Gallant	7.3k 1.4×	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.7×	876 1.4×	76	8.3k
Yongchun Zhu	6.3k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	2.4k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	650 1.1×	149	7.5k
Xizheng Liu	6.0k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	543 0.9×	133	7.0k
Radostina Stoyanova	4.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	941 0.7×	485 0.8×	211	5.9k
Zhenyu Wang	4.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	874 0.6×	861 1.4×	113	5.5k
Hyun Deog Yoo	5.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	641 0.4×	348 0.6×	62	6.0k
Wei Tong	3.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	966 0.7×	349 0.6×	101	5.0k
Qi‐Hui Wu	3.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	966 0.7×	630 1.0×	145	4.5k
Nobuyuki Imanishi	6.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.5×	2.4k 1.7×	310 0.5×	191	7.4k
Zheng‐Wen Fu	8.3k 1.6×	2.7k 1.2×	2.4k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	518 0.9×	203	9.2k

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Campa, Maria Fernanda, Craig M. Brown, Jason Delborne, et al.. (2024). Nanotechnology solutions for the climate crisis. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(10). 1422–1426. 7 indexed citations

Shin, Yongsoon, Wei Liu, Birgit Schwenzer, et al.. (2016). Graphene oxide membranes with high permeability and selectivity for dehumidification of air. Carbon. 106. 164–170. 57 indexed citations

Xiao, Lifen, Yuliang Cao, Jie Xiao, et al.. (2013). Molecular structures of polymer/sulfur composites for lithium–sulfur batteries with long cycle life. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 1(33). 9517–9517. 61 indexed citations

Nandasiri, Manjula I., Alan G. Joly, Patrick Z. El‐Khoury, et al.. (2013). Silver nanorod arrays for photocathode applications. Applied Physics Letters. 103(16). 19 indexed citations

Schwenzer, Birgit, Sébastien Kerisit, & Vijayakumar Murugesan. (2013). Anion pairs in room temperature ionic liquids predicted by molecular dynamics simulation, verified by spectroscopic characterization. RSC Advances. 4(11). 5457–5457. 25 indexed citations

Xiao, Lifen, Yuliang Cao, Jie Xiao, et al.. (2012). A Soft Approach to Encapsulate Sulfur: Polyaniline Nanotubes for Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries with Long Cycle Life. Advanced Materials. 24(9). 1176–1181. 962 indexed citations breakdown →

Bawazer, Lukmaan A., Michi Izumi, Dmitriy Kolodin, et al.. (2012). Evolutionary selection of enzymatically synthesized semiconductors from biomimetic mineralization vesicles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(26). E1705–14. 36 indexed citations

Murugesan, Vijayakumar, Birgit Schwenzer, V. Shutthanandan, et al.. (2012). Elucidating graphene–ionic liquid interfacial region: A combined experimental and computational study. Nano Energy. 3. 152–158. 43 indexed citations

Li, Xiaolin, Yuliang Cao, Wen Qi, et al.. (2011). Optimization of mesoporous carbon structures for lithium–sulfur battery applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 21(41). 16603–16603. 409 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, et al.. (2011). Cd1−xZnxO [0.05 ≤x≤ 0.26] synthesized by vapor-diffusion induced hydrolysis and co-nucleation from aqueous metal salt solutions. Dalton Transactions. 40(6). 1295–1295. 1 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, Jerry Hu, & Daniel E. Morse. (2011). Correlated Compositions, Structures, and Photoluminescence Properties of Gallium Nitride Nanoparticles. Advanced Materials. 23(20). 2278–2283. 13 indexed citations

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Murugesan, Vijayakumar, Birgit Schwenzer, Soowhan Kim, et al.. (2011). Investigation of local environments in Nafion–SiO2 composite membranes used in vanadium redox flow batteries. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. 42. 71–80. 62 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, Soowhan Kim, Vijayakumar Murugesan, Zhenguo Yang, & Jun Liu. (2011). Correlation of structural differences between Nafion/polyaniline and Nafion/polypyrrole composite membranes and observed transport properties. Journal of Membrane Science. 372(1-2). 11–19. 83 indexed citations

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Kim, Soowhan, Jingling Yan, Birgit Schwenzer, et al.. (2010). Cycling performance and efficiency of sulfonated poly(sulfone) membranes in vanadium redox flow batteries. Electrochemistry Communications. 12(11). 1650–1653. 226 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, James R. Neilson, Kevin Sivula, et al.. (2009). Nanostructured p-type cobalt layered double hydroxide/n-type polymer bulk heterojunction yields an inexpensive photovoltaic cell. Thin Solid Films. 517(19). 5722–5727. 34 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, Jerry Hu, Yuan Wu, & Umesh K. Mishra. (2006). Elucidation of the correlation between atomic-level defects in GaN nanoparticles and photoluminescence properties by NMR, XRD and TEM. Solid State Sciences. 8(10). 1193–1201. 8 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, et al.. (2006). Substrate-Induced Growth of Nanostructured Zinc Oxide Films at Room Temperature Using Concepts of Biomimetic Catalysis. Langmuir. 22(24). 9829–9831. 29 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, Jerry Hu, Ram Seshadri, et al.. (2004). Gallium Nitride Powders from Ammonolysis: Influence of Reaction Parameters on Structure and Properties. Chemistry of Materials. 16(24). 5088–5095. 37 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit & Helmut Fischer. (2003). Alkynylcarbyne(bipyridine)dicarbonyl(triflouroacetato) complexes—synthesis and detection of reversible association in solution. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 667(1-2). 16–23. 15 indexed citations

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Schwenzer, Birgit, et al.. (2002). Alkynylcarbyne complexes containing various tri- and bidentate ligands such as cyclopentadienide, tris(pyrazolyl)borate, bis(pyrazolyl)acetate and tmeda: synthesis and spectroscopic properties. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 641(1-2). 134–141. 38 indexed citations

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